[Avodah] [Areivim] Fwd: Vayetze: *Vayishkav Ya'akov bamakom hahu*

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From: "Richard Wolpoe" < >
The speak .. stated [as per Rashi who quotes the Midrash Rabbah] that
*Vayishkav Ya'akov bamakom hahu* meant Ya'akov had not slept his entire 14
years at Yeshivas Sheim vo'ever.  I corrected the speaker later on, in
private. I explained that Rashi/Midrash meant he had not "LIED DOWN to
sleep" not that in fact had never slept!  The implication is quite far
different.  Never sleeping for x number of days is an impossibility as per
the Gmara re: Nedarim.  OTOH, not lying down for a period of time merely
presents Ya'akov as an aesthetic not as a magician!
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The CS writes exactly that (in the 5-vol CS al-hTorah p.138).
Yaakov slept but without stretching himself out ("meloy komosoy"). 
However here - being Har Hamoriah ".rotzoh lishkov meloy komas Yitzchok -
shene'ekad shom"

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